This serves as the Call for Papers for the 2019 Britain and the World Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2019.

After our annual conference in Exeter in June 2018, Britain and the World returns to the US: Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 April at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza.

As always, the conference is concerned with interactions within the 'British world' from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present and will highlight the importance of transnational perspectives.

We accept both individual twenty-minute papers and complete panel submissions. Panels are expected to consist of three or four papers and should be submitted by one person who is willing to serve as the point of contact. Complete panels should also include a chair. In addition to abstracts for each individual paper, panel submissions should also include a 100-150 word introduction describing the panel’s main theme. The conference does not discriminate between panels and individual paper submissions, nor between graduate students and established academics.

The conference icebreaker will be held on the Wednesday evening, a welcome reception on the Thursday, the Dinner Party on the Friday, and the outings downtown on the Saturday. We will also have two keynote addresses: Professor Allison Games, of Georgetown University, and Professor Susan Kent, of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Known as the City of Fountains, Kansas City is rumoured to have more fountains than Rome and is synonymous with art, jazz, and barbecue. With authentic Kansas City BBQ, over 40 venues for live jazz, and it’s a penchant for green spaces, KC is ranked among America's most underrated cities and one of its friendliest. With the National World War One Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Truman Presidential Library all in close proximity, Kansas City provides “an unmatched ambience of Midwestern charm”.

We have secured eighty deluxe guestrooms, Wednesday-Saturday, at the special rate of $169 per night; many other hotels may be found in the immediate vicinity.

Conference rates cover registration (including a rolling membership which includes subscription to Britain and the World peer-reviewed EUP journal), refreshments throughout the day, and lunch on all three days.

Members:

Tenured/permanent faculty: $200

Untenured/fixed-term faculty: $150

Student: $100

Non-members:

Tenured/permanent faculty: $250

Untenured/fixed-term faculty: $200

Student: $150

We’d like to stress that Britain and the World is a non-profit organisation; all proceeds are spent on the conference.

All submissions for inclusion in the conference should be received by Monday, 19 November 2018, with decisions on inclusion announced on Monday, 3 December 2018. Submissions should be made by email to editor@britishscholar.org. Please submit all information in the body of your email (no attachments or PDFs, thank you!) and in the following order: name, affiliation, email, paper title, abstract, keywords.

Updates regarding the conference will periodically be posted on the Society website. It is hoped that participants will be able to call upon their departments for hotel and transportation expenses as the conference is not able to offer financial support.

On Twitter our @britishscholar hashtag is #BATW2019. Registration for the Conference will open on Monday 7 January 2019.